RELIEF OF SHACKLETON.
"DISCOVERY" TO CO AT ONCE
The High Commissioner reports, London, Juno 1 I (12.15 a.m.) : The Admiralty Committee of the Shackleton relief expedition report that the ship Discovery is to be equipped at once, for a two years' voyage. A small party is to be landed in the winter, to search the coast by sledge in the autumn and spring. Ihe ship is to return in 1917 or 1918.
The Committee's recommondat ion had been approved by the Govern mom, when, Sir Ernest Shackleton arrived at the Falkland Islands. Since then the Committee had, advised the rescue ol 22 men left. Sir E. Shackleton will attempt to do this in the vessel from Uruguay. The rescue of the men lcrt by the Aurora will be effective wi.h the co-operation of Australia and New Zealand.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 60, 15 June 1916, Page 3
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137RELIEF OF SHACKLETON. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 60, 15 June 1916, Page 3
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